• Review the socio-economic planning, urban planning processes from the city to ward levels. This includes identifying the timing, contents and local capacity for conducting the
planning. • Assess to which extent the disaster management and climate change responsive
aspects have been integrated in the current planning processes. • Identify any constraints on the planning process, issues in implementation of the current
planning with regard to incorporating disaster management and climate change responses into the mainstream planning processes.
• Make recommendations as to how disaster management and climate change related aspects can be integrated in the future planning processes.
2.2 PROCESS
A. Levels
1. HCVA from city to village level. 2. Results of assessment were
feedbacked from village to communeward to city level.
B. Key contents of assessment
1. Hazards assessment to determine potential and secondary hazards
2. Assess the vulnerability by disasters and climate change and identifying
the impacted areasthemes; identifying most vulnerable groups.
3. Assess the impacts of disasters and climate change on gender
4. Identify the key areas impacted.
2.3 STEPS
Preparation: - Development of conceptual framework: based on international and local sourced
literature views, practical experiences of CtC Staffs and review discussion with other NGOs staff of Climate Change working group Care, Oxfam, Netherlands Red Cross,
Gender, Governance, Disaster Management specialists, staff from Can Tho University Dragon Institute and Mekong Research Institute, staff from Hue Agriculture-Forestry
university and staff from Hue University. One day team work was spent on briefing of the scenarios of CC on Mekong Delta, and Can Tho, and sharing the key tools and purposes
for different groups such as livelihoods, environment, health, education, Disaster Management, gender and governance.
- Developing specific assessment plan of HCVA with the key partner of the city, DONRE
to organize the field work. -
Local facilitators were key assistants of assessment teamproject from city Gov agency and mass organization of wardcommune. Local facilitators come from the City Red-
Cross, DONRE, staff of people’s committee offices, women’s union, farmers’ union, health, education departments at district and communeward level, and land survey
officer at town and ward centres.
HCVA Districtcommuneward
HCVA At city level
HCVA Hamletvillage
HCVA and feedback sessions
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- Briefing of climate change scenarios for the city with supporting document provided by
ISET and Can Tho Dragon Institute. -
Orientation session of HCVA process, methodology, expected results and specific plan for representatives’ city divisions, and people committee and mass organization of
wardcommune. -
Lessons learned from HCVA are consolidated after the HCVA has been completed.
Conducting HCVA: -
At city level 1 day: hazard assessment to identify potential hazards, most vulnerable wardcommunes, most affected sectors and issuesconcernsneeds assessment
responding to climate change, coping experiences and good practices for disaster mitigation of the city
- At wardcommune level 2.5 days: hazard assessment to identify main hazardssecondary hazards, most vulnerable wardcommunes, most affected main
economic activities and problems analysis responding to climate change, coping experiences and good practices for disaster mitigation of the wardcommune, priority of
adaptation options.
- At sectionvillage level 2 days: hazard assessment to identify main hazardssecondary
hazards, most vulnerable wardcommunes, most affected main economic activities and problems analysis responding to climate change, coping experiences and good practices
for disaster mitigation of the wardcommune, priority of adaptation options.
Feedback session during field work: -
Daily feedback among members of assessment team for further improvement of the tools usage, and information collected.
- Feedback session was organized right after completion of assessment for each level
from sectionvillage to wardcommune, to city. The main purpose of the feedback sessions are reporting the results of HCVA from sectionvillage to wardcommune and to
city level, validating the main source information collected, most concern problems, needs and solutions, and generating more ideas on Climate Change adaptation of city.
2.4 TOOLS AND METHODS Secondary data from participants, related organizations, departments and agencies:
collecting information on topography, climate, population, infrastructure, environmental sanitation, natural resources and leal documents of resources management, urban plan,
disaster management and cfsc and SEDP reports.
Focus group discussion: General issues were discussed in mix groups. However, discussions on needs for assistance were done in sex-disaggregated groups in order to
ensure that the needs of both men and women were voiced up.
Some PRA tools:
• Historical profile
: used to get information on types of disaster, types of losses, reasons to losses and the most affected zones in community and information compilation of
potential hazards •
Seasonal calendar: used to record change of weather, time of disasters and working
calendar in the year, methods and capacity of community to cope with hazards. •
Mapping: maps drawn by local people are useful to get information related to vulnerable
areas, areas at risk of erosion or deposition, places for use as shelters, livelihoods activities.
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• Transect Mapping:
used to collect information on distribution of resources, landscape, current utilization of resources and advantages as well as disadvantages of topography
based on direct observation and interview local people along the path across an area. •
Ranking: used to i rank the disasters and their impacts to find out the most dangerous
disasters, ii rank the affected zones by disasters to identify zones at high risks to climate change scenario, iii rank suggestions and needs of community to cope with climate
hazards •
Problem tree: to analyse the environment issues and poverty in the assessment
• Wealth ranking:
to analyse the characteristics of the poor and non poor in the areas. •
In-depth interviews: During survey, gender balance is a requirement in group discussion
and household in-depth interviews.
2.5 STAFFING AND ORGANISATIONS Joining HCVA activities are 4 staff from Challenge to Change, 3 staff from Mekong research
Institute, 3 staff from Dragon Institute, 1 gender specialist, 2 governance specialists, 1 staff from Hue University, 1 volunteer staff from Hue agriculture and forestry university, an
educational volunteer, a Tuoi Tre newspaper photographer and staff from Department of Natural Resources and Environment of Can Tho City, staff from city Red Cross, key staff
from of the Provincial and District’s People Committees and other related Offices, staff from mass organizations in Binh Thuy and Vinh Thanh and the town and wards.
3. DISASTER MANAGEMENT 3.1 STRUCTURE
The 2
nd
Vietnam National Strategy and Action Plan for water - related disaster mitigation and management in the period 2001 - 2020 adopted a key strategy of preparedness and
mitigation to the Mekong floods in general and Can Tho in particular, while harnessing their environmental benefits, as “
Living Together with Floods ”. The motto “Four on-sites” i.e. On-
site command, On-site force, On-site materials - means and On-site finance - logistic is applied as an integrated solution for adaptation and protection of human life and property, to
maintain safe and sustainable housing for local people, and to maintain social security.
Strengthen the organization on the Steering Committee for Flood and Storm Control in each departments and locals wards and communes. It is need to increase public awareness on
the implementation the natural disaster preparedness following Steering Committee guidelines.
Actually, Can Tho is not an effected natural disaster area if compared with other places of the whole country. However, changing weather and potential climate change are impacting
local livelihoods, especially to the poor who are easy getting the vulnerabilities due to the change.
In Can Tho, the Steering Committee SC for Flood and Strom Control has been established under the People’s Committee of Can Tho City. The organization structure is following the
top-down layers as in Figure 6. Under the Steering Committee are the representatives of the Departments, Army, Police Forces and other social organizations, people in communities are
in final way of information. On March 2009, the People’s Committee of Can Tho City has established the Steering Committee for Climate Change and Adaptation in order to
coordinate all climate change concerned activities.
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Figure. 4. Organization structure of the SC for Flood and Storm Control of Can Tho City
3.2 DISATERS MANAGEMENT IN BINH THUY DISTRICT
